Tiffany+Brown

Google SketchUp Project Gather/Organise What do I know about this? What do I know about the topic? Have I encountered anything like this before? What questions can I ask to help me understand is required? What skills and knowledge will I be using? I know that I must create a performing arts centre that includes dance studios, music classrooms for both instrument lessons and class lessons, drama classes and an auditorium. I know that I will be using Google SketchUp. I have done a Da Vinci module when we created a stage where we had to chose what type of theatre or area we wanted to do, draw a draft and create our place. I think that this topic is similar to that although I will be using different tools. The questions I can ask to help understand this topic more are: How much room do we have that we can use? Is there a limitation on how big the classrooms and auditorium are? Is there a limitation on how high the entire building can be? How big do you want the foyer to be? The skills and knowledge I will be using are: Knowing how to use the tools on Google SketchUp Knowing the exact criteria of the project Identify

What is the task? What am I trying to do? What are my goals? What do I need in order to do this? Explain the task in your own words Investigate some examples. What are the obstacles? Can I draw a diagram that will help me to visualise my work? How will I know that I have completed the task?

The task is to create on Google SketchUp from rough sketches we have drawn, a performance centre for Dio. I am trying to make a totally unique Performance centre that is stylish and creative. My goals are: to work really hard and not get distracted, to try to be one of the final 6 selected to show my presentation to the class, to follow the timeline, to finish and hand in my project on time. In order to do this I need to be totally focused for every period of class and do some work for homework and to always do my best work. The task in my own words: to create a totally unique and cool performance centre for Dio that will have room for dance studios, recording studios, Orchestra and choir rehearsal rooms, a student room, a staff room, drama rooms, classrooms for music classes and instrument lessons. Some of the examples I have investigated were: The Christchurch Town Hall Performing arts, Brighton College Performing Arts Centre, the University of Colorado State University new Theatre of Arts, Mangere Arts Centre and Beaufort County School District. The obstacles are: at the moment I don’t know how big the space is that the Performing Arts Centre is going to be built in. I think that maybe it is a good idea to draw a diagram so that I can visualise what to do with my time so that I use my time wisely. I think that I will know when I have completed the task when I feel that I have done all that I can to do my best work and make my work look good and unique. When this happens I think that my task will be complete. Generate

How many ideas can I think of? Limit ideas to two or three. Consider the advantages and disadvantages of each idea. Is there another way to do this? What resources (books, websites, etc) have I been provided with? What do other people think about this?

I have designed the different levels of the Sketch-up building. The advantages of only designing the different levels are that I can immediately start. The disadvantages are that I don’t have different ideas to use.

Decide Which is the best idea? Explain your reasons for the decision. What the arguments for and against each idea? Which idea is the best one for completing the task? What is my plan?

I think that my first level design is better than my second level design. I think that the design was better for the placing of everything and my second level design was too cramped. Implement Let's do it! Am I making progress through the plan? Am I doing this correctly? Do I need to revise my plan? As you continue, you may discover facts that require changing the plan. The actual making of the sketch-up design is very complicated and challenging but it is still fun. I think that I am making great progress and I think I am doing it right. My plan is just right for placing.

Evaluate How well did I do? Did I complete the task as set originally set out? Did I solve the problem? What have I done? What have I done really well? Could I have done it better? What areas need improvement? Am I ready to communicate my ideas or show/display my work to others? I think that overall my finished project was quiet good and even though I think that it got a bit stressful it was fun. I think that I completed the task and I think that problem we had to build a performing art centre for Dio and I think I managed to do that.

Communicate Let's tell someone! Who can I tell? Who is my audience? What is the best way to present this to my audience? What should I say to ensure my audience understands? How do I interest my audience in my ideas? Do I have the right information to get my message across to my audience?

I can tell my class, parents and teachers. The best way to present is through a PowerPoint Presentation. I should keep it simple and to the point.

Learn from Experience What have I learned? How would I do this again? What would I change to improve my performance? How have I improved since that last time I worked on a similar task? What knowledge have I learned? Can this knowledge be used elsewhere? How has my thinking changed as a result of this work? What skills have I learned and developed? Can these skills be applied to other subjects/activities? What problems did I have to solve? How did I use the strengths of others to help me?

I have learned that planning out what you are going to do each day and making sure you have enough time to finish the task is very important. If I did it again I would spend more time on my design. I improved my work since the science project. I used the knowledge of doing a science project on Sketch-up. I think my mind has broadened for the designing. I think that I have now developed designing skills and these can be used for Tech Materials which we are making jewellery for and we must design our own jewellery.

Google Earth and VoiceThread Project My Reflection I found that once I knew how to use the tools that we were using for this project it was fairly easy. I think that if we had been by ourselves it would have been harder. We chose our places because we wanted to use places that were important to that specific place. The places that we chose are, New Zealand: Aoraki/Mt Cook: We chose this as our Scenic Place because it is important to New Zealand as it is New Zealands tallest mountain and it is a very beautiful scenic place. The Otago Gold-Fields: We chose these as our historic place because it is very important historically and the Gold-Fields brought alot of fame to New Zealand. The Lake Taupo Eruption: We chose the Lake Taupo Eruption as our Nautural Disaster because we felt that it was very heart breaking to many people in and around the community of Taupo, also it was one of the largest recorded eruptions. Lake Karapiro: We chose this as our sporting place becaus ewe felt that it was significant to New Zealand as many of our famous rowers like Mahe Drysdale and the Ever-Swindell Twins have rowed there. The Sky-Tower: We chose this as our place special to Auckland because it is the tallest man-made structure in New Zealand and it has been here many years. The Sky-Tower is also recognize almost instantly if you say Auckland. Over-sea's: Empire State Building: We chose this as our place of significance because it is the tallest building in New York and is also the 3 tallest building in America so we thought that this was quite significant. The Egyptian Sphinx: We chose this as our historical place because the Sphinx has been in Egypt as long as the pyramids have and no one knows how it was made so it is quite a mysterious place of interest. Mt Vesuvius: We chose this as our natural disaster because when Mt Vesuvius erupted the pumice and ash fell and enclosed Pompeii and the people in it in a shroud of ash. We thought this was a very big and interesting natural disaster. The Grand Canyon: We chose this as our scenic value because the Grand Canyon is widely recognised and visited by people around the world. It is so big, magificant and natural which was what we wanted our scenic place to be. The San Diego Sports Arena: We chose this as our sporting place because we felt that as it had been refurbished, and it is so significant and used by thousands of people that it was a great sport arena I think that I worked well with my partner Emily because we didn't get in each others way and we did our own parts of the project on time, without complaining and when we were asked to by the other person. I think that I pulled my weight quite well because I got the pictures that we needed while I was on holiday and when I got back to school I went straight to work and made the VoiceThreads and put them straight onto Google Earth. I think that the good things about this project was learning how to use new programmes and working in partners was definitely a plus because that way we got more done. I don't think there was anything bad about this project. The problems we came across were that when we were trying to record sometimes the microphones wouldn't work or sometimes when we recorded the recordings wouldn't play back. We solved this problem by using different microphones until we found one that worked. The one that we finally got working was the one on our laptops.We couldn't work out how to resize the puictures and to solve that problem we watched the VoiceThread that Mrs Yeo had made bit by bit while we were resizing the picture. Sometimes on VoiceThread the picture wouldn't load because they were to big or there was to many people on VoiceThread.We solved this problem by resizing the pictures and then putting the pictures on at night when there wasn't that many people on them and then doing the recordings during class time. On Google Earth our place marks wouldn't save. We solved this problem by saving them in our temporary places and then moving them to our places folder. Our file wouldn't load onto my Wiki Page so to solve the problem I just had to keep reloading and adding the file until it worked. It is now on the bottom of my page. Because Emily and I finished early and we helped people put their files onto Wikispace and helped them finish their projects. 



My Gimp Poster. My Poster is about being not giving out your password and that you wouldn't give random people you house-key so why would you give out you password.